ECF plans on delivering milestone on the same general schedule as
the
Helios Simultaneous Release
schedule, starting with M4. ECF has both +0 and +1 components. The
+0 components will be
on same release schedule as the Platform, and the +1 components will
be as specified below.

The org.eclipse.ecf.core package is API, and the
org.eclipse.ecf.internal.core package is not

Only with major releases (e.g. 2.0.0, 3.0.0) are incompatible
API changes to be introduced (e.g. refactorings, renames), and even
then only after discussion
among multiple committers. For the parts of ECF used by the Platform
(e.g. the core and file transfer bundles), NO incompatible
API changes will be introduced, even for major releases, in order to
maintain the platform backward compatibility
constraints.